17-18 Dec 2011- Uyuni, Bolivia – The Rolling Stones, Forty Licks
After the beauty and madness of Salar de Uyuni, my new family and I had luckily escaped to our first nights sleep on solid ground. Our hotel was made of salt bricks and was rather rudimentary, and in honesty we all slept rather even though we were 4 kilometers above sea level.
We awoke to a cold morning overlooking the stunning salt flats and had a big day of touring ahead of us. We were to visit a number of colourfullakes and the national park of…umm forgot.
 The dining hall at our salt hotel. It was comfortable for a nights meal and a few beers. |  After a few hours driving we arrived at our first lake. |
 It was beautiful and stained cobalt blue by the minerals leached from the surrounding mountain. |  The lake is also the home to migratory flocks of flamingos |
 This other lake is quite poisonous, and flammable. Nailed to the sign is what once was a small cute animal that didn’t obey the rules (no smoking buddy) |  After an hour more on the road we come across this strange rock of MADNESS |
 Which made everyone act like a loonie |  and then off to blood Lake!! |
 Our dirty old landcruiser was kicking arse, and perfect for the terrain. |  We ended the day in our rustic huts for our second and last nights sleep, this time at 5km above sea level. |
We had a fun and crazy night of salsa dancing, drinking wine and eating our new favourite food, spicy pringles topped with tinned tuna, nom nom nom…
The next morning we were up at the ungodly hour of 4:30 to see the sights on our last day. Whoopee, my favourite !!! Volcanic action!!!
 Here is some Volcanic Action |  A bunch of geezers that they let you get extremely close too |
 Tell the truth, the place freaken stinks!! |  And the morning was kicking along nicely, all we needed now was a few llamas and a hot bath to set up the perfect day. |
 After some hunting in camouflage, I found the llamas |  and also a hot bath!! What luck!! |
 It was a rather pleasant morning. |  Which all our family enjoyed immensly |
 And after about an hours wholesome fun with the llamas it was time to turn homeward. |  A 7 hour drive back to Uyuni which our awesome driver Erwin handled perfectly. We played classic car games like eye spy, and animal mineral vegetable. |
In Uyuni safe and sound, we take one last photo before our family departs in different directions.
An awesome time had by everyone!! Big thanks Ruth, Steve, Franco, Inga, Marisella, Erwin and of course the LLAMAS!!
Laters.x.brad.
